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Saturday, September 13th, 2025
the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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Ezekiel 33:18

When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him in it.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Apostasy;   Backsliders;   Blasphemy;   Condescension of God;   God Continued...;   Judgment;   Responsibility;   Wicked (People);   Works;   The Topic Concordance - Death;   God;   Judges;   Man;   Repentance;   Turning;   Ways;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, he will die for it.
Hebrew Names Version
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
King James Version
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
English Standard Version
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it.
New American Standard Bible
"When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, then he shall die in it.
New Century Version
When the good people stop doing good and do evil, they will die for their evil.
Amplified Bible
"When the righteous turns back from his righteousness and commits injustice, he will also die because of it.
World English Bible
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
Geneva Bible (1587)
When the righteous turneth from his righteousnesse, and committeth iniquitie, he shall euen die thereby.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, then he shall die in it.
Legacy Standard Bible
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does iniquity, then he shall die in it.
Berean Standard Bible
If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
Contemporary English Version
If good people start doing evil, they will be put to death, because they have sinned.
Complete Jewish Bible
When the righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits wickedness, he will die because of it.
Darby Translation
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and doeth what is wrong, then he shall die therein.
Easy-to-Read Version
If good people stop doing good and begin to sin, they will die because of their sins.
George Lamsa Translation
When a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die in his iniquity.
Good News Translation
When someone righteous stops doing good and starts doing evil, he will die for it.
Lexham English Bible
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, then he will die because of it.
Literal Translation
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does iniquity, he shall even die by them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
When the rightuous turneth from his rightuousnesse, and doeth the thynge that is wicked, he shall dye therfore.
American Standard Version
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
King James Version (1611)
When the righteous turneth from his righteousnes, and committeth iniquitie, he shall euen die thereby.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
When the righteous turneth from his righteousnes, and doth the thing that is wicked, he shall dye therein.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
When the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and shall commit iniquities, then shall he die in them.
English Revised Version
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whanne a iust man goith awei fro his riytfulnesse, and doith wickidnessis, he schal die in tho;
Update Bible Version
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
Webster's Bible Translation
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, for that he shall even die.
New English Translation
When a righteous man turns from his godliness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
New King James Version
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it.
New Living Translation
For again I say, when righteous people turn away from their righteous behavior and turn to evil, they will die.
New Life Bible
When the right and good man turns from his good way and sins, he will die for it.
New Revised Standard
When the righteous turn from their righteousness, and commit iniquity, they shall die for it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When the righteous man shall turn from his righteousness and commit perversity Then shall he die for them;
Douay-Rheims Bible
For when the just shall depart from his justice, and commit iniquities, he shall die in them.
Revised Standard Version
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall die for it.
Young's Literal Translation
In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity -- he dieth for it.

Contextual Overview

10 And you, son of man, say to the children of Israel, You say, Our wrongdoing and our sins are on us and we are wasting away in them; how then may we have life? 11 Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the evil-doer; it is more pleasing to me if he is turned from his way and has life: be turned, be turned from your evil ways; why are you looking for death, O children of Israel? 12 And you, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the upright man will not make him safe in the day when he does wrong; and the evil-doing of the evil man will not be the cause of his fall in the day when he is turned from his evil-doing; and the upright man will not have life because of his righteousness in the day when he does evil. 13 When I say to the upright that life will certainly be his; if he puts his faith in his righteousness and does evil, not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory; but in the evil he has done, death will overtake him. 14 And when I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; if he is turned from his sin and does what is ordered and right; 15 If the evil-doer lets one who is in his debt have back what is his, and gives back what he had taken by force, and is guided by the rules of life, doing no evil; life will certainly be his, death will not overtake him. 16 Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in mind against him: he has done what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his. 17 But the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: when it is they whose way is not equal. 18 When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him in it. 19 And when the evil man, turning away from his evil-doing, does what is ordered and right, he will get life by it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ezekiel 33:12, Ezekiel 33:13, Ezekiel 18:26, Ezekiel 18:27, 2 Peter 2:20-22, Hebrews 10:38

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 18:10 - do Jeremiah 31:30 - General Ezekiel 18:24 - when Amos 5:7 - leave Revelation 22:4 - they

Cross-References

Genesis 25:20
Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.
Genesis 28:2
But go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
Genesis 33:6
Then the servants and their children came near, and went down on their faces.
Genesis 33:7
And Leah came near with her children, and then Joseph and Rachel, and they did the same.
Genesis 35:9
Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said,
Genesis 46:15
All these, together with his daughter Dinah, were the children of Leah, whom Jacob had by her in Paddan-aram; they were thirty-three in number.
Joshua 24:1
Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before God.
Judges 9:1
Now Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem to his mother's family, and said to them and to all the family of his mother's father,
John 3:23
Now John was then giving baptism at Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there; and people came and were given baptism.
John 4:5
So he came to a town of Samaria which was named Sychar, near to the bit of land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When the righteous turneth from his righteousness,.... This and what is said in the following verse are clear instances of the equality, justness, and goodness of the ways of God; and are again repeated, if possible, to make it clear and plain to them that their charge and complaint were groundless; :-,

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